What paper aeroplane...

[RainingLight]

Since I no longer give a shit about my copy, I tried this. I made a regular paper airplane, it flew about six feet before veering strongly to the left, and was then caught and eaten by my cat.

[fatwoul]

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Originally posted by RainingLight:
Since I no longer give a shit about my copy, I tried this...

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Maybe someone should get you a new copy. [img]images/smiles/icon_sad.gif[/img]

[JuggaloStatix]

what brought on this thought i might add...but i would take and make a stright linear airplane andset the tail on fire with a match and throw it...

[WhenNothingWas]

I had to quit after page 13 due to an unfortunate surface scratch across my left cheek.

[fatwoul]

Imagine you tear every page out of a copy of HoL, in order, and fold them all into paper aeroplanes.

What sort of plane would you make out of p466, How far would it fly, and would it curve to the left, right, or fly in a straight path?

[Pigbod]

Though failure of communication within my family I got three copies of HoL for Xmas. I, somewhat inspired by ouzo and the second-last chapter, took all the pages out and made a device within which to hold an egg, a raw egg. Using sellotape and pages 200-432 I made a cylindrical chamber, sealing the bottom using the back cover and scissors. Pages i-xxiii were separated, scrunched-up and placed within the chamber to comfort the egg, the raw egg. Pages 20-25 were scrunched and used to cover it.

The remaining pages were scrunched up and attached outside the chamber; an ingenious touch I thought.

I began my test:

I stood tall and extended my arm fully in line with my shoulder and dropped the device. It was a success.

I repeated the above, except I stood on a chair. Success.

I dropped the device out of my window, approximately 50ft from the ground. Success.

Thereafter, I decided to test it from the highest public building I could find, the local library. I was crossing the road on my way there when I slipped on some black ice and fell over onto the device, crushing the egg.

There are some nights I lie awake until morning, thinking what if? What if?

[JuggaloStatix]

just as with what happened when stan lee put out his what if series...i can see it now...what if the egg didnt break...

[malakite]

I once made a conatiner similar to pigbods, and it protected an egg(yes, a raw egg) from a four story window. y'know how? two 2-liter bottles, duct tape and marshmallow fluff.

we did this in my third grade class. it was a contest to see who could do it from the highest. the rule was, we could use anything we found in our teachers home(with her approval, of course). then we took them all back to the school, and dropped thim, similarly, from incrementally increasing heights. mine won, because at four stories, it didn't break the egg, and there was no practical way for us to go higher.

[WhenNothingWas]

AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!

[fatwoul]

I have the egg thing beaten. (no pun intended)(OK I lied).

When I was still geeky enough to be into model rockets, I had an Omloid, which was the Estes rocket for launching eggs to great heights and returning them safely. By fitting a much larger solid fuel engine than the rocket was supposed to have, I managed to get it to around 400ft+.

The egg returned by parachute safely.

A'thank yeow.

[malakite]

...marshmallow creme was more creative. and i bet you didn't do that in third grade.

edit: besides, ya smarmy english bastard, it doesn't matter how high it is if you have something to slow the descent and thus soften the impact. if you had gotten the egg up and down in that rocket with out a parachute, just freefall, i would tip my non-existant hat to you. as it is, there shall be no hat-tipping on this occasion.

[ January 29, 2004: Message edited by: malakite ]

[lazysmurf]

toothpicks, rubber cement, 2 pound weight limit, 2nd story window, unbroken egg, 7th grade.

beat that, biatches

[malakite]

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Originally posted by lazysmurf:
...2nd story window, unbroken egg, 7th grade.

beat that, biatches

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okay:

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Originally posted by malakite:
... four story window....third grade class...it didn't break the egg...

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any other silly challenges?

[fatwoul]

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Originally posted by malakite:
...it doesn't matter how high it is if you have something to slow the descent and thus soften the impact...

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Why? Who made the parachute? A parachute slows the egg's descent over its entire journey, rather than exerting an acceleration on the egg for the last few fractions of a second.

Overengineering a box to take a fall from a great height is just clumsiness. Your device could just as easily have been made out of a 1 tonne steel box filled with cotton wool.

That's not skill, its just padding.

[snowraith]

Two minutes after class had started, empty mountain dew can cut off at the top, 12 packing peanuts found in the garbage, and two pieces of scotch tape stolen of the teachers desk. Three story drop, landed straight, safe egg. I also won points for lightest design.

[member #5556]

Lead weights, two anvils, and ball bearings.

Well no, of course I didn't win, but I managed to bust a slab of the school's sidewalk, and that's just as rewarding when you think about it.

[malakite]

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Why? Who made the parachute? A parachute slows the egg's descent over its entire journey, rather than exerting an acceleration on the egg for the last few fractions of a second.

Overengineering a box to take a fall from a great height is just clumsiness. Your device could just as easily have been made out of a 1 tonne steel box filled with cotton wool.

That's not skill, its just padding.

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my point has nothing to do with whether or not your feat was impressive. it's just that you were playing a different game by different rules. we, in our game, were not allowed to use parachutes, so the skill was the padding. the goal was to dreate something that was better able to to cushion the egg on impact, not to create something that would simply make the egg hit the ground slower.

i too would have been capable of creating a parachute device, but i would have been disqualified for not following the rules.

[fatwoul]

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Originally posted by malakite:
...playing a different game by different rules...

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It strikes me as amusing that someone may seem so determined to adhere to rules in the construction of a technically pointless device when at school, but in so doing fail to adhere to the simple rules of this thread.

Perhaps you would like to explain the rules by which you had to play.

I really would be truly, completely and utterly fascinated to read them.

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Originally posted by malakite:
...we, in our game, were not allowed to use parachutes, so the skill was the padding...

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Yes. That was the teacher's game, and you played by the rules. Have an extra biscuit with your milk at playtime.

But this is my game. I told you the rules at the start. Name your type of paper aeroplane and how it would fly, or shut the fuck up. [img]images/smiles/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[malakite]

all im saying is that, while you certainly won the shoting-an-egg-up-in-a-rocket contest, there is no indication that you won the dropping-an-egg-from-a-4-story-window contest. the truth is, i have never successfully launched an egg with a rocket, though i have launched a CD-ROM as well as countless hapless army men.

as to the original purpose of this thread, i thought i had already answered, though i see now that i have not. i would certainly make a very nice, blunt-nosed sort of plane out of p.466. it is a strange feeling plane, which is folded such that it is very heavy in the front, making for a very fast, straight, and short flight. my favorite type of paper airplane, i learned how to build it from a book that described many types of planes and named them after birds. this one was named the peregrin falcon. there was also a plane called the hummingbird which required a small bit of clay, but which functioned rather like a helicopter, in that it didn't fly forward, but rather, it had a rotor on the top which spun and allowed it to hover gently to the ground. i feel that this would be a wonderful design to use for any page from the introduction. another plane was called the nighhawk and resembled a stealth bomber. it was, despite all my attempts, far beyond my ability at the time, though i now believe that using the two covers(the nighthawk required multiple peices of paper) would be apprpriate, as they are black, and would add to the stealth bomber stylings.